From the very start of reading Brave New World, the novel starts putting ideas into one’s head of the structure of the society and how the people accommodate themselves to the morality that is tied within this structure. I am sure that there are people within this class, myself included, that have thought this society was twisted and dark. But in reality, doesn’t our society have similarities to this “Brave New World?” And where do we fit in amongst the “savages” and the “civilized?” I believe that our society today can relate to the character of John. And I am interested in expanding on this idea within my essay. But yet, I have not finished reading this novel. And because of this, I may change my opinion on whether or not I want to incorporate this theory in my essay at all. Well, with this said within this blog I will outline what I believe may be a possibility of my thesis of my essay.
As I was reading BNW, I began thinking that if our society was characterized in BNW it would most likely be portrayed as John. John is the best of both worlds. He is the best of the new world and the savage world. Our society has similarities to both the savage and the civilized as well. Our society still contains the parental asset, but yet it is becoming more and more relaxed on the subject of sexuality as in the new world. With this said, are we not the best of both these worlds too? I believe this is what Huxley was aiming for. I truly believe that he wanted us to relate ourselves to John, who is a combination of both these societies.
So, my thesis will probably answer the question of: What type of society does our country reflect today, a civilized or uncivilized one? Within answering this question I will most likely incorporate the idea that our society would be relatable to the character of John. I will most likely make relations to Postmodernism and 1984. I will also try to find another source that relates to this topic outside of these two novels.
I know my ideas are not totally coherent. I hope that you interpret them they way I intended them to be. But then again, I’m not sure that they do make any sense. But this is why we are outlining, right?
Sunday, October 4, 2009
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